Who is Federico Giannini

Federico Giannini è giornalista, direttore responsabile di Finestre sull'Arte. Nato a Massa nel 1986, si è laureato nel 2010 in Informatica Umanistica all’Università di Pisa. Nel 2009 ha iniziato a lavorare nel settore della comunicazione su web, con particolare riferimento alla comunicazione per i beni culturali. Iscritto all’Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti dal 2017, specializzato in arte e storia dell’arte. Nel 2017 ha fondato con Ilaria Baratta la rivista Finestre sull’Arte, iscritta al registro della stampa del Tribunale di Massa dal giugno 2017. Dalla fondazione è direttore responsabile della rivista. Collabora e ha collaborato con diverse riviste, tra cui Art e Dossier e Left. Al suo attivo anche docenze in materia di giornalismo culturale (presso Università di Genova e Ordine dei Giornalisti). Per la televisione è stato autore del documentario Le mani dell’arte (Rai 5) ed è stato tra i presentatori del programma Dorian – L’arte non invecchia (Rai 5). Partecipa regolarmente come relatore e moderatore su temi di arte e cultura a numerosi convegni (tra gli altri: Lu.Bec. Lucca Beni Culturali, Ro.Me Exhibition, Con-Vivere Festival, TTG Travel Experience).

All the articles by Federico Giannini on Finestre sull'Arte

The rediscovered 15th-century fresco and the latest news from the Palazzo Nardini construction site in Rome

by Federico Giannini , written on 19/04/2025

Categories: News Focus

Serendipity, the British would say. It is the word they use to refer to those totally unexpected discoveries, exceeding expectations, that come when you were looking for something else. It is more than a fortuitous finding: it is a surprising outcome...
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Milan rediscovers Andrea Solario. This is what the beautiful exhibition at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum looks like.

by Federico Giannini , written on 13/04/2025

Categories: Exhibition reviews

One work alone, the Poldi Pezzoli'sEcce Homo , would be enough to understand what kind of artist Andrea Solari was. All it would take is that Christ so ideal and so deeply human, somewhere between Antonello and Leonardo, between the lenticular exacti...
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If the television Van Gogh is Alberto Angela's, then indeed Temptation Island.

by Federico Giannini , written on 09/04/2025

Categories: Opinions

Let's start with the big picture: years of studies, exhibitions, books, articles, and various and sundry activities to couple all the stereotypes about Vincent van Gogh, to convey to the public the idea that the figure of Van Gogh was slightly more c...
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The traumas of Urbania and its Ducal Palace.

by Federico Giannini , written on 06/04/2025

Categories: Travel

Urbania enshrines within the walls of its Ducal Palace the poetry of Federico Barocci. Most enter here to get a close-up look at the Madonna of the Clouds, the beautiful painting attributed to him that is revealed at the end of a winding path through...
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What are the trends in young contemporary painting today? A quick overview

by Federico Giannini , written on 30/03/2025

Categories: Works and artists

Those who are used to flipping through art magazines know that art magazines like to offer their audiences looks and analysis in the form of rankings. The ten best booths at the fair, the twenty artists to watch out for, the thirty exhibitions of the...
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In Lucca, among the splendors of Palazzo Mansi and its National Museum.

by Federico Giannini , written on 23/03/2025

Categories: Works and artists

He had been to Lucca, the father of American realist literature. William Dean Howells had arrived in Lucca one day in April, leaving from Pisa under a sun that already at eight o'clock in the morning seemed hot and sickening, he who was used to the c...
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Florence, why is Giannelli no good and Price is?

by Federico Giannini , written on 19/03/2025

Categories: Opinions

Problem: Given the indignant shrieks with which insiders have been accompanying the installation of Emanuele Giannelli's sculptures in front of the headquarters of the Region of Tuscany in Florence for days, the candidate should explain, possibly con...
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Palazzo Barberini and Caravaggio. In the bedlam of the blockbuster exhibition of the year.

by Federico Giannini , written on 16/03/2025

Categories: Exhibition reviews

One struggles beyond measure to catch a glimpse of an exhibition in the exhibition halls of Palazzo Barberini, where for just over a week the public has been admitted to a new, unfailing, unmissable Caravaggio epiphany, organized to coincide with the...
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